> > users migrate to other, smaller but similar anonymous black markets

They're not going to be very happy about it, though. They were on SR for a reason. With Atlantis shuttering the other week, that leaves just BMR (old, but full of scammers) and Sheep (less than a year old and tiny).

Nobody in California was happy when their favorite dispensery got raided 8 years ago and there weren't many alternatives. But there is 3 per block in Los Angeles these days.

California legalized medical marijuana and has reduced overall penalties, so I don't see how your comparison is remotely relevant.

Despite the fact that raids were continuously happening, local governments were enacting bans (meaning immediate financial ruin) and certain dispensary owners were facing decades in prison...I'm not sure what the legality of the situation has to do with either of our points. The size and scope of alternatives is directly related to the success of the primary institution. The users will certainly not be happy about the situation, but barring major developments in the coming weeks, it is clear that operators and users have decided the risks are acceptable comparable to the service. Pointing to the landscape of alternative services at the present moment does not indicate how users will migrate and how site owners will propagate in the face of opportunity. The California industry is comparable as operators, while facing smaller penal punishment, faced the same financial risk and zero anonymity.

Even the FBI has to optimize their resources dude.

Indeed, the FBI has been so successful in the war on drugs, they are now actually able to keep drugs out of prisons.

Did you bother to research the FBI or what it does before you spouted this nonsense?

Yeah, I know what the FBI does, they are the people who pick through your trash in those big blue trucks. IIRC correctly they also invented the vaccum cleaner in the 50s because the director was getting his dress dirty cleaning the old fashioned way.